In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe." "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky.
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"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play" Minsky shut his eyes, "Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher. "So that the room will be empty." At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
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@arigesher possibly@Meaningness would find this worth a chuckle (or perhaps he wrote it)2 replies 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread
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Yes that is great! It was written by @dannyhillis who was a friend of mine at MIT.
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